क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं?

A simple pronunciation guide is:

kyā āp hindī boltī hain?

Approximate it as:

• क्या = kyaa
• आप = aap
• हिंदी = hin-dee
• बोलती = bol-tee
• हैं = hain (roughly like heñ with nasalization)

A more natural connected pronunciation is often something like:

kya aap Hindi bolti hain?

The little dot in हिंदी and the nasal sound in हैं can be tricky at first, but learners are usually understood even if those are not perfect.

At the beginning of a sentence, क्या often marks a yes/no question.

So:

• आप हिंदी बोलती हैं। = You speak Hindi.
• क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं? = Do you speak Hindi?

In this sentence, क्या does not mean what.
It is just signaling that the speaker is asking a yes/no question.

Hindi does not need a helper verb like English do in this kind of question.

English:

• Do you speak Hindi?

Hindi:

• क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं?

Hindi forms the question with:

• क्या at the beginning, and/or
• question intonation

So there is no direct equivalent of English do here.

आप means you, but it is the polite/formal form.

Hindi has different ways to say you:

• तू = very intimate / very informal / sometimes rude depending on context
• तुम = informal or friendly
• आप = polite, respectful, formal

So क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं? is a polite way to ask someone, especially:

• a stranger
• an older person
• someone you want to address respectfully

बोलती is the feminine habitual form.

The verb बोलना means to speak.
In the present habitual pattern, Hindi often uses a form that agrees with the person’s gender:

• बोलता = masculine singular
• बोलती = feminine singular
• बोलते = masculine plural, or commonly masculine polite with आप

So क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं? is typically said to a woman.

If you are speaking to a man, you would usually say:

• क्या आप हिंदी बोलते हैं?

Yes, they are both part of the verb expression.

Hindi often builds this kind of present tense idea with:

• a main verb form: बोलती
• an auxiliary verb: हैं

So:

• बोलती gives the main action and shows habitual aspect
• हैं helps complete the sentence and matches polite आप

Together, बोलती हैं means something like speak / do speak in this context.

Because आप takes the plural/polite auxiliary हैं, even when talking to just one person.

Compare:

• तुम हिंदी बोलते हो।
• आप हिंदी बोलते हैं।

So even though आप can refer to one person, it still uses the respectful verb pattern with हैं.

Yes, usually.

Because of बोलती, the sentence is normally addressed to one woman politely:

• क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं? = said to a woman

To a man, you would usually say:

• क्या आप हिंदी बोलते हैं?

That said, in real conversation learners may hear some variation, but this is the standard pattern to learn first.

Yes. In spoken Hindi, people sometimes ask a yes/no question just by using rising intonation.

So these can both work:

• क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं?
• आप हिंदी बोलती हैं?

The version with क्या is especially clear and very common for learners to use.

Sometimes, yes.

The most standard learner-friendly version is:

• क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं?

But in conversation, Hindi can also use:

• आप हिंदी बोलती हैं क्या?

That version is also a yes/no question, with क्या placed at the end. It sounds more conversational in many contexts.

As a beginner, though, it is safest to learn and use:

• क्या + subject + rest of sentence

हिंदी is the name of the language: Hindi.

In this sentence it comes before the verb, so literally the structure is close to:

• you Hindi speak

That is normal in Hindi.

So:

• आप हिंदी बोलती हैं = You speak Hindi

The sentence follows the usual Hindi pattern:

• क्या = question marker
• आप = you
• हिंदी = Hindi
• बोलती हैं = speak

So the structure is roughly:

Question marker + Subject + Object/Language + Verb

Hindi often prefers Subject–Object–Verb order, unlike English, which usually prefers Subject–Verb–Object.

You would usually replace आप with तुम, and the verb would change too.

To one female friend, for example:

• क्या तुम हिंदी बोलती ho? Wait—correct Devanagari is:
• क्या तुम हिंदी बोलती हो?

To one male friend:

• क्या तुम हिंदी बोलते हो?

So the main changes are:

• आप → तुम
• हैं → हो

You add नहीं before the main verb phrase:

• क्या आप हिंदी नहीं बोलती हैं?

This means:

• Do you not speak Hindi?
• Don’t you speak Hindi?

In natural conversation, people may also say:

• आप हिंदी नहीं बोलती हैं?

That can sound like:

• You don’t speak Hindi?

बोलना usually means to speak, to talk, or to say, depending on context.

In language sentences, it commonly means to speak a language:

• मैं हिंदी बोलता हूँ। = I speak Hindi.
• वह अंग्रेज़ी बोलती है। = She speaks English.

So in this sentence, बोलती हैं means speak.

If you are addressing several people politely, आप still works, and हैं still stays.

The verb form depends on the group:

• to a mixed group or a group of men: क्या आप हिंदी बोलते हैं?
• to a group of women: क्या आप हिंदी बोलती हैं?

So the sentence may look the same as the polite singular feminine form if you are speaking to women.

Not always in a very careful letter-by-letter way.

Learners often write it as hain, but in natural speech it may sound shorter or more nasalized than that. Depending on accent and speed, it can sound something like:

• hain
• hen
• hẽ

You do not need to worry too much at first. If you say something close to hain, people will understand you.